Seabridge Gold Calls Tudor Gold’s Application to Cancel Permit at KSM Mine Site “Frivolous and Without Merit”

A pair of mining companies are at odds over who has the rights to conduct activities on a stretch of land in the northwest.

Yesterday, Tudor Gold filed an application to have a license of occupation and permit granted to KSM Mining ULC in 2014 canceled.

It authorizes the Seabridge Gold subsidiary to conduct certain activities around the KSM Mine site on land owned by Tudor.

Under the permit, KSM crews are allowed to occupy the lands and construct a set of tunnels connecting the east and west ends of the mine.

Once the tunnels are constructed, the 12.5 kilometres of land owned by Tudor which it crosses will become a statutory right of way.

But Tudor says the Province did not have the rights to grant the permit, and that it actively devalues their claims.

Seabridge notes that Tudor didn’t actually purchase the claims until 2016, by which point their KSM rights were publicly known.

They call the application frivolous and without merit, and say they will pursue its dismissal.